Pioneer Builds Bridges to Apple Ecosystem

Pioneer is building more bridges to Apple products in its mainstream AV receiver (AVR) series. Four new mainstream-series AV receivers include the company's first three AVRs certified by Apple to connect and charge an iPad (starting at $349), first AV receiver with Apple's Air Play wireless audio-streaming technology

Pioneer is building more bridges to Apple products in its mainstream AV receiver (AVR) series.

Four new mainstream-series AV receivers include the company's first three AVRs certified by Apple to connect and charge an iPad (starting at $349), first AV receiver with Apple's Air Play wireless audio-streaming technology (starting at $549), and first model (at $549) compatible with the new iControlAV2 app, which turns iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches into full-function remotes that control all features of the company's networked AV receivers and Blu-ray players.

The company promises to include the new Apple features in the rest of the AV receivers that it will launch in the spring and summer, citing the high percentage of Pioneer AVR owners who own Apple products.